Postal Service May Be Misnamed

November 2, 2004|David L. Rush Jr. Fort lauderdale

I can't say I'm surprised that the Postal Service has mishandled some of Broward's absentee ballots, if that's what happened. Mail delivery in my Imperial Point neighborhood is atrocious. During a previous election, my wife's absentee ballot arrived on time, but I didn't receive mine until a week after the election, even though both were requested at the same time.

We are constantly getting mail for people with the same house number on a different street, as well as mail for our next-door neighbor. When we requested a vacation stop for two weeks in August, about half of our mail was delivered to our house anyway. When I complained about both matters, I was told to write a letter to the postmaster. I suppose that letter is sitting in a pile of undelivered mail, along with who-knows-how-many absentee ballots.